History Events DA

The Urban Anthropology Center/NAU (today LabNAU, laboratory), celebrates three decades of activities – it began in 1988 – inspired by the initiative of two professors, Ruth Cardoso and Eunice Durham. In a department based mainly on classic authors, fundamental to the study and research in the area of indigenous ethnology (as was tradition at the time) and long before the current discussion about gender and female presence in the academic area, Ruth and Eunice led a turnaround: from the choice of study topics as postgraduate students – not without disagreements with the advisors – to the lines of research of their own students, already as professors in the Department of Anthropology at USP.

One of its initiatives, the “Monday Seminars”, which gives the title to this proposal, opened an opportunity for students to get in touch with unconventional authors in the bibliography of the department's programs at the time: Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci, Saskia Sassen, Jean Lojkine, Michel Foucault, Nicos Poulantzas, Howard Becker and others, from different orientations and areas of knowledge and outside the scope of classical Anthropology.

In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnography to provide a rich account of how favela residents appropriate different technologies to navigate digital and non-digital sources of oppression - and even, at times, thrive . Based on the work of educator Paulo Freire, Nemer develops a decolonial and intersectional theoretical framework called Mundane Technology to analyze how technologies can simultaneously be spaces of oppression and tools in the struggle for freedom. Nemer also addresses the relationship between disinformation and radicalization and the rise of the new extreme right. Contrary to the techno-optimistic belief that technology will save the poor, even with access to technology, these marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Still, the community spirit, love, resilience and resistance of favela residents enable their quest for freedom.

Political-educational formation and indigenous movements: reflections from the Kaiowa and Guarani peoples

With
Eliel Benites (Ministry of Indigenous Peoples)
Kerexu Mirim (EEI Krukutu)
Levi Marques Pereira (UFGD)
Mediation
Augusto Ventura dos Santos (Doctor PPGAS/USP)

02/27/2024, at 10am
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro 181, Colmeia - favo 8

Closing lecture on CEstA 2023 activities with Maria Luísa Lucas (MAE/USP) and Leandro Varison (Museé du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac)

Shared collections: the Franco-Brazilian collections of Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss

15/12/2023 - 2:30 pm
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 - favo 8

Friday of the Month: Black Intellectualities

08/12
5pm
Room 24 of the USP Social Sciences Building
Broadcast via Youtube.

Guests:
Fernanda Martins (PhD student in Social Sciences/UNICAMP, Researcher at PAGU/UNICAMP and NUMAS/USP
Layne Gabriele (IEAL/UNICAMP Undergraduate, Popular Educator, Researcher and Communicator
Victor Mateus Duarte (Master in Philosophy UFABC and Specialist in Contemporary Philosophy IBF

Mediation:
Alessandra Tavares (PPGAS/USP PhD student)

Hêmba is a photobook composed of more than 80 images produced by indigenous photographer and anthropologist Edgar Kanaykô Xakriabá throughout his career. Edgar Xakriabá is a photographer and anthropologist and belongs to the village of São João das Missões, in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. The title Hêmba, in the Akwẽ language, refers to “soul and spirit” and its translation alludes to the concept of “photography and image”.

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Event to take place between 11/29 and 30/2023, organized by Francisco Pereira Neto (DA doctoral candidate) - "Social movements and urban and housing policies" (11/29, 6:30 pm) and "Methodological paths to understand the city" (11/30, 6:30 pm) - broadcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =GfgpxHDGyR0)

Lecture with Cássio Brancaleone
Professor at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul - UFFS
Researcher at the Latin American Councils of Social Sciences - CLACSO
Post-doctorate in Political Science at USP

11/10/2023 at 2:30 pm
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 - Colmeia favo 8

Empirical anarchies: approaches to popular autonomies in Latin America in the light of a libertarian anthropology